Re: read bug in Cygwin xterm window only

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 09:22:08PM +0200, Jason Curl wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 05:54:35PM -0700, Peter Farley wrote:
>>The following program demonstrates what looks to me
>>like a bug in the "read" function in an xterm (as
>>opposed to a Cygwin console window).  To run the test,
>>compile with:
>>
>>gcc -g -o xtermbug.exe xtermbug.c
>>
>>When you run it in a console window, you can enter
>>normal keyboard characters, then a return to see
>>"cmdline=<what you typed>".  Press the Esc key to exit
>>the program.
>
>Unfortunately I'm seeing exactly the same problem too, and have so for 
>some time. I've also noticed that a read() giving a particular length 
>will ignore the length field and actually read more data in some cases.

Peter provided a test case which I used to diagnose a problem with
Cygwin.  I fixed the problem and released a new version of cygwin which
fixed the problem so it is unlikely that this is exactly the same
problem.

Please provide a simple test case which shows your specific problem.

And, also please provide the details mentioned at
http://cygwin.com/problems.html .

cgf